PFC Wiley Nelson Holbrook
BIRTH
17 Jul 1923
Wise County, Virginia, USA
DEATH
21 Dec 1944 (aged 21)
Belgium
BURIAL
Holbrook Family Cemetery
Saint Paul, Wise County, Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID
156331102 · View Source
MEMORIAL
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Pfc. Wiley Holbrook St. Paul, Va., Nov. 18.—The body of Pfc. Wiley N. Holbrook of St. Paul, the first war dead to be returned to his immediate vicinity, will arrive here tomorrow at 4:35 p. m. Holbrook was killed in action in the Battle of the Bulge on December 21, 1944. He served with the 291st Engineers, 1306th General Service Regiment. Prior to his enlistment, he was employed by the Clinchfield Coal Corporation at Dante. Surviving are his father, Alfred R. Holbrook, St. Paul; three brothers, Earle Holbrook, Nora, Va., and Sam and Frank Holbrook, St. Paul; nine sisters, Mrs. John Edwards, Hazel, Va.; Mrs. Pride Sutherland and Mrs. William Harlow, Bristol, Tenn, and Misses Irene, Belva, Melissa, Myrtle, Janie and Faye Holbrook, all of St. Paul. Funeral services will be held at his father’s residence in St. Paul at 2 p. m. Thursday with Rev. John Sutherland officiating. Burial will follow in the family cemetery with American Legion Post No.51 in charge at the grave. Members of the American Legion will also serve as pallbearers.
Lebanon News 21 November 1947.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm a daughter of Allan B. Holbrook, now in heaven. My married name is Debby Stevens. My parents, Allan and Marie, were devout Christians, and had 10 children. They were both school teachers, but Mom quit teaching at public school after marriage. But both Mom and Dad home-schooled us all - starting when I was in 1st grade - that's when they came to the decision to home-school us.
Dad earned an income through being an English teacher here in Traverse City, for man years.
Dad started some Bible meetings that took place in the homes of friends of ours and in our own. He was the main teacher in it, and it was in a discoursing style - he would talk about spiritual things with the fathers of the families, each time, and all the children of the families would sit and listen to it all.